Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 23:50, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 23:31, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 17:34, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: >>> On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 08:5

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 20/06/2022 14:55, Siard wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: Has something changed that makes virtualbox workable again, I have the Virtualbox 6.1.34 package for Debian 11, downloaded from www.virtualbox.org, working fine in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Have you succeed

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 23:31, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 17:34, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: >> >>> On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: >> > The ability to print to an IPP pri

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 17:34, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > >> On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: > The ability to print to an IPP printer involves discovering its URI. CUPS gets the URI vi

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 19:49:18 +0100, Brian wrote: Please forget about this mai. I pressed the wrong key. Never done that before! > On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 12:34:19 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > > > > > "...once the URIis known"? What mechaism does that?

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 12:34:19 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > > > "...once the URIis known"? What mechaism does that? Incidentally, a > > URI is required to query a printer for its attributes. > > Any of a number of mechanisms. > > CUPS could run discovery on

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: >>> The ability to print to an IPP printer involves discovering its >>> URI. CUPS gets the URI via avahi-daemon whether it is an >>> on-demand or manual queu

Re: issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-20 Thread DdB
Since i am running dozens of VM's, i can say: Me2 am running into this regularly, when i am trying to purge old kernels. I am seeing this so frequently, that i even wrote a script (meant to be run inside the VM's) to clean up the mess, some apt-scripts happen to leave behind. But in this special ca

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 19 Jun 2022 at 18:01:36 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2022-06-19 at 15:47, Brian wrote: > > >>> You (or the OP) would have to say what is meant by "delete". > >>> CUPS essentia

Re: issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:58:55 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: Hello D., >But it failed, with the error message: Actually; .exited, with the warning. That is to say, it's doing what it's supposed to do. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent"

Re: issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:58:55 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: > So it seems reasonable to remove /lib/modules/5.10.0-11-amd64/misc/ > manually and re-execute the purge command. Yes, go ahead and do so. > > But before I try that, I'm puzzled as to how this situation could > have arisen. Has anyone el

issue with purging an old kernel

2022-06-20 Thread D. R. Evans
Normally to remove an old kernel from my debian stable systems, I issue the following command: apt purge linux-headers--amd64 linux-headers--common linux-image--amd64 Following this recipe, which has always worked in the past, I issued: apt purge linux-headers-5.10.0-11-amd

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Siard
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > Has something changed that makes virtualbox workable again, I have the Virtualbox 6.1.34 package for Debian 11, downloaded from www.virtualbox.org, working fine in Debian 12 (Bookworm).

CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: > On Sun 19 Jun 2022 at 18:01:36 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-06-19 at 15:47, Brian wrote: >>> You (or the OP) would have to say what is meant by "delete". >>> CUPS essentially *discover* printers. It is why it exists. Is >>> that not wanted? >> >

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 19 Jun 2022 at 18:01:36 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-19 at 15:47, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 19 Jun 2022 at 14:54:58 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2022-06-19 at 14:50, Brian wrote: > > >>> What does being "precious" involve? > >> > >> I'm less certain about this, but

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21:53 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: Hello Anders, >Has something changed that makes virtualbox workable again, or has it >*always* been available in sid? It's always(1) been available in sid. VB has still got the same issue WRT migrating to testing; Work may still be on

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:21:53PM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > I remember when Virtualbox was removed from debian, and I remember the > reasons. That's why I was surprised when I saw a recent message to the > list where a user tried to install it. Searching for "virtualbox" > indeed shows me t

Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Anders Andersson
I remember when Virtualbox was removed from debian, and I remember the reasons. That's why I was surprised when I saw a recent message to the list where a user tried to install it. Searching for "virtualbox" indeed shows me that it is available in stretch-backports and sid: https://packages.debian.